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Alan McPherson - The Invaded: How Latin Americans and Their Allies Fought and Ended U.S. Occupations - 9780190498764 - V9780190498764
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The Invaded: How Latin Americans and Their Allies Fought and Ended U.S. Occupations

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Description for The Invaded: How Latin Americans and Their Allies Fought and Ended U.S. Occupations Paperback. Num Pages: 416 pages, 25 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KL; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLL; HBLW; HBTQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 158 x 234 x 26. Weight in Grams: 600.
In 1912 the United States sent troops into a Nicaraguan civil war, solidifying a decades-long era of military occupations in Latin America driven by the desire to rewrite the political rules of the hemisphere. In this definitive account of the resistance to the three longest occupations-in Nicaragua, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic-Alan McPherson analyzes these events from the perspective of the invaded themselves, showing why people resisted and why the troops eventually left. Confronting the assumption that nationalism primarily drove resistance, McPherson finds more concrete-yet also more passionate-motivations: hatred for the brutality of the ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780190498764
SKU
V9780190498764
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About Alan McPherson
Alan McPherson is Professor of International and Area Studies, ConocoPhillips Petroleum Chair in Latin American Studies, and Director of the Center for the Americas, University of Oklahoma. He is the author of the prizewinning Yankee No! Anti-Americanism in U.S.-Latin American Relations and of Intimate Ties, Bitter Struggles: The United States and Latin America since 1945, and editor of Anti-Americanism in ... Read more

Reviews for The Invaded: How Latin Americans and Their Allies Fought and Ended U.S. Occupations
< Alan McPherson has produced a unique contribution to the literature on U.S. Latin American relations. Viewing this work in relationship to his previous scholarship, it is easy to conclude that he has become the foremost young scholar in the field....This book should be required reading for any policymaker, U.S. or other, contemplating military intervention and occupation, and that is ... Read more

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